Sheikh Abdulrahman Al-Sudais, head of the Presidency for the Affairs of the Two Holy Mosques, delivers a copy of the Holy Qur’an to Arnoud Van Doorn during a reception in Makkah on Sunday as Shahzad Muhammad (right), head of the Canadian Dawa Association (CDA), looks on. — Okaz photo …

Political bankruptcy of Muslim parliamentarians was exposed by the Tamil National Alliance leader R Sampanthan and the TNA parliamentarian M.A. Sumanthiran when they raised the issue of growing disastrous hate Muslim campaign in the parliament. As it is well known that there has been a wave of well planned attacks on the political, religious, cultural, economic life of Muslims in …

            Seven schoolboys from the Advanced and Ordinary Level mediums of Zahira College, together with their Principal A.R. Marikkar are on a visit to India. The Principal and the students left for India on April 15 and will be in India until today. The visit is organised by the India-Sri Lanka Foundation, which aims to …

President Mahinda Rajapaksa met with 15 heads of diplomatic missions of Islamic countries in Sri Lanka at Temple Trees to discuss matters of mutual interest, the Government Information Department reported. Fifteen diplomatic heads of Islamic countries, resident in Sri Lanka, met with President Mahinda Rajapaksa at Temple Trees this afternoon to discuss various matters of mutual interest pertaining to both …

In testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee on Tuesday March 12, 2013, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper reaffirmed what the U.S. intelligence community has been saying for years: Iran has no nuclear weapons program, is not building a nuclear weapon and has not even made a decision to do so. The annual “Worldwide Threat Assessment,” which compiles the collective conclusions of all American intelligence …

BOSTON—A late-night police chase and shootout has left one marathon bombing suspect dead and another on the run, police here said, as residents of the still-grieving city were ordered by officials to "shelter in place" while the manhunt continues. One police officer was killed and another was seriously wounded during the violent spree. The Associated Press identified the surviving Boston …